Alphonse moetant



- A. MONTANT. I v Catch for Holding Chest Covers, &0.

No. 230,326. .Pat nted July 20,1880.

' To all whom it may concern: I

UNITED STAT S PATENT I OFFICE,

ALPHoNs E 'MONTANT, on NEW YORK, NY, I

CATCH FOR HO'LDING-QHEST-COVERS, std.

v SP1:C IFIZLNITION' formingc part of Letters Iafifi'ii ,NO; 230,326,-

J'fily" 20," 188 I V application filedDec'emher 33879. I I

Be it known that-I, ALPHONSE MoNfrANT, of the city, county, and State ot'lflew York, have made an invention of certain new and useful Improvements in' Stays or Catches for HcldingOpen- Chest-Covers and otherlArti-.

The object of this invention is to enable the cover of a chest or other. articlelto be caught automatically or stopped and held when-it is' opened, and also to enable the stop or'eateh to be automatically released from its abutment or rest when the coyer,.sash, or other article is to be closed.

combinations or devices, whiclrare specified zo'in detail at the close of this specification.

To this end myinvention consists of certain in order that. they may be fully understood, I have represented in the accompanying drawings, and will proceed to describe, one of the prises, essentially, a traveling, swinging, or

pivoted piece orstop that is connected with the chest-cover or other article which is moved for vthe purpose ofbeing 0pened,and an automatically-shifting spring, which, when the chestcover or other article is opened, permits the traveling'stop to engage with a fixed rest or abutment, but which, when the chest-cover is i tobe closed, disengages the traveling stop automatically from said fixed abutment, so

that the chest-cover is then free to'be closed.

- The stop A is slotted at its upper end and is connected with the chest-cover B, so as to traveler move with said cover when itis opened, by means of a screw, 11-, upon which the stop swings pivotally', with the capacity of moving longitudinally upon the said screw:v or pivot a.

a fixed rest, (J, for the stop to abut upon 7 to the body of the chest-D.- y 4 W hen the cover is raised the stopA travels turning'of" the eove'r upon its hinges causes toward the fixed rest U. Hence, when the swings over the rest, and if the cover be then holds the cover open, as shown in Fig.2; and when the eoveris thus released its weight in descending shifts the pivot to to the lower end of thcslot e in the-head of the stop. I

. The shifting-spring F is secured to the cover B in such position relatively tothe traveling stop A that when the pivotavis in the lower end 01' the slot 0, as in Fig:1','the'spriirg does from the fixed rest 0; but when the pivot In, is in the lower end of the slot '0, as. in Fig. 2, the spring bears against. the head of the stop and tends to cause it to turn on the piyot a, so as tomove the point of the stop laterally off the fixed rest- O, or in' the direction of the arrow 8 in Fig. 2.

spring, is inoperative to move they stop, and as a measure of precaution the rest 0 is slightly notched to receive the point of the stop, so-

;that any lateral inovementjot it is absolutely prevented. It, however, the cover of the chest stop from the rest, the automatically shit'ting spring F is at once permitted to act and move variable in its action, permitting the traveling rest when the cover is to be lowered.

' res'tored'to' itsnormal positionduring lowering,

is formed with a doubleincline, h. When-the or is carried upward-with the cover, and the the pointof the stop to swing by gravitation not tend to turn the point of the stop away,

be slightly raised so as to lift the point of thc: 85

the point of thestop oif the fixed rest, as shown inFig. 3, thus permitting thecover'tobe closed. Thespring F is thus automatically In order that the traveling stop A maybe when the cover is'to be held open, ,is secured released this point engages-with the rest and y So longas the cover remains propped open by the stop this tendency, of the a second spring, g, is .provided,-'aml the head l ot' the stop A adjacent to this second spring cover is propped open, asjin Fig, 2, this spring ioo '9 l stop to engage with the fixed rest or-abutmeut during the opening movement, and afterward I disengaging the stop automatically from the;

operates on the lower incline; but when the cover is lowered after being released by the stop the bearing of the descending stop upon the end 1',- Figzfi, ot' the rest causes the stop. to swing'on its pivot sutliciently to bring the upper incline of its head beneath the end of the restoring-spring g, whereupon the pressure of that spring; on the incline of .the head pushes the stop downward and restores itto the normal position. shown at Fig. 1;

In the case of a chest it is sometime 0011- g vcnient to let the; cover hang in a backward position, and the traveling; stop A may be construct ed ti'rpermit' this effect-in addition to its other function. To this end a pin, (7, is inserted in the side of the stop, and a hook, J, is secured to the body of the chest in the "proper position to engage with this pin and asto cause the stop to slide toward its rest during" opening and from its rest. when the ar- .icle to which it is applied is to be closed.

- I claim as my invention-.-

l. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the traveling movable stop and the antomatically-shit'ting'spring' for said stop, which combination is adapted to be secured for use on the cover, of a chest or other movahle'article to he caught or fastened on being; opened. i t

2. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the' traveling movable stop, the automatically-shifting spring for said' stop, and the fixed rest for said stop. I

3. The combination, substantially as before set forth, ofthe traveling, movable stop, the automatically-shifting spring" for said 'stop,

' and the restoringdevice for restoring the movable stop to its normal condition. v

4. The combination subs tantiallv as before set forth-,ot' thetraveliug movable stop, the antomatically-shit'ting spring, and: the hook, whereby the stop is enabled to perform its du plex t'unctions of permitting; theci-iver to hang backward and ot' propping the cover open,with the capacity of automatic disengagement.

. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this 17th day of November, A. D. 1879.

A-L'PHONSE lilONTAN'i.

Witnesses:v

GnAs. A. DAvTox. C. H. PENNELL. 

